Romantic Women Writers Reviewed
Editor: Ann R Hawkins
Assistant Editor: Stephanie Eckroth
Women Writers Reviewed
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How was the work of Hannah More or Helen Maria Williams viewed by their contemporaries? Just as importantly, how did their reception compare to that of lesser-known women? This multi-volume reset collection addresses a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering the first comprehensive compilation of contemporary reviews of the work of women writers during the Romantic period. Reviews are grouped by year of publication and come from over a hundred different periodicals, including Gentleman’s Magazine, Critical Review, English Review, Antijacobin Review, Flowers of Literature, Lady’s Monthly Museum, Quarterly Review, Monthly Review, Edinburgh Quarterly Review and Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine.
This series reveals a different landscape for nineteenth-century women writers than previously imagined. Alongside reviews of well-known authors sit those of writers and works that have been neglected or lost. The opinions of contemporary reviewers captured in these entries allow insight into social mores, as well as literary tastes and changing perceptions of women authors.
This collection will appeal to scholars of literature, women’s studies, print culture and the social history of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain.
- Features reviews of approximately 300 women writers
- Includes over 1,200 separate articles from more than 100 different journals
- Provides information that may lead to the identification of lost texts
- Extensive general introduction and endnotes
- Consolidated index in Part III
Sample pages
- General Introduction
- extract from 'The Seward-Weston Debate', appearing in Gentleman's Magazine, 1789–91
Contents
Part I
Volume 1: 1789
Aberdeen Magazine; Analytical Review; Attic Miscellany; Biographical and Imperial Magazine; Critical Review; Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany; English Review; European Magazine; General Magazine and Impartial Review; Gentleman’s Magazine; Lady’s Magazine; Literary Magazine and British Review; Monthly Review
Volume 2: 1789–90
1789: New Annual Register; New Lady’s Magazine; New London Magazine; Scots Magazine; Town and Country Magazine; Trifler; Universal Magazine and Review; Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure; Walker’s Hibernian Magazine; Weekly Entertainer
1790: Aberdeen Magazine; Analytical Review; Annual Register; Attic Miscellany; Biographical and Imperial Magazine; Critical Review; Edinbugh Magazine, or Literary Miscellany
Volume 3: 1790
1790: English Review; Gentleman’s Magazine, 1789–91: The Seward–Weston Debate; Introduction: Women Reviewed and Reviewing – Contextualizing Anna Seward’s Debate with Joseph Weston; Gentleman’s Magazine
Editorial Notes; Textual Notes; Contents by Magazine; Appendices to Volumes 1–3: A: Common Articles and Collation, Frances Brooke, Suzanne Cibber, Hannah Cowley, Ann Emelinda Foster, Dorothy Schlözer; B: Editorial Notes to Volumes 1–3; C: Translations of Foreign Words and Phrases; D: Quotations and Allusions; E: Magazine Headnotes; F: Headnotes to Authors in Reviews; G: Headnotes to Authors Referenced; H: Attributions and Identifications; I: List of Reviews Indexed but Not Included; J: Works Cited
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